Report from 2008 to 2010

Please find a collation of meeting reports from 2008 to February 2010

Yorkshire and The Humber: 5 Meetings – Dr Matt Capehorn

1^st Meeting, 11 March 2008

‘Obesity Specialist Networking’

Speakers

Carol Weir, Public Health Obesity Specialist

Maria McQuigg, Counterweight Study

Prof Hugh Jones, specialist obesity centre in primary care

Peter Sedman, secondary care intervention

Workshops

• How do we best build capacity in our region to deliver obesity services?
• What is your professional development needs to build both capacity and capability?
• Develop and prioritise the lists developed above to give a “professional development syllabus” to focus on themes for future meetings.

Sponsors: Counterweight, Roche and LighterLife

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2^nd Meeting, 1 July 2008

‘Children and Families’

Speakers

Prof Paul Gately, Leeds Met Uni

Paul Sacher, MEND Programme

Kath Sharman, SHINE

Clare Wyke, WATCH IT

Audrey Croft, nutrition and lifestyle advice in the community

Karon Mayor, rationale for bariatric services for South Yorkshire

Sponsors: Roche, Abbott, sanofi-aventis, LighterLife, Slimming World and Meat and Health

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3^rd Meeting, 13 January 2009

“Gender Specific Aspects of Obesity and New Ways of Managing Obesity”

Speakers: Jane DeVille-Almond, targeting men in weight management programmes

Prof Hugh Jones, the role of testosterone as an independent risk factor for obesity and cardio metabolic risk

Dr S Rutter, PCOS diagnosis and management

Yvonne Jeanes, dietary aspects in the management of PCOS

Workshop

Discuss proposals to change service rationale

Sponsors: Abbott and LighterLife, Vita Clinics

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4^th Meeting, 18 June 2009  

‘Examples of weight management practice’

Speakers

Dr Matt Capehorn, NOF news Jonathon Aldred, Villa Vitality Winton Rossiter, financial incentive programmes

Colette Boyden & Clair Liversidge, ‘Fat Fighters’

Chris Wathen & Ian Smales, Weight Management Wakefield PCT

Sponsors

LighterLife, Abbott, MEND

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5^th Meeting, 18 February 2010

‘Eating Disorders and Their Role in Obesity and Further Examples of Weight Management Practice’

Speakers

Dr Olga Kapellerova, classification & management of eating disorders in child and adult

Karen Rowe, emotional eating and food & mood

Clare Lockwood, South Yorkshire Eating Disorders Association

Maggie Young, eating disorders

Rory O’Conor, measuring childhood BMI centiles the easy way

Karen Thompson, working as a Weight Management Specialist Dietitian in Public Health

Margaret Lake, weight management in practice

Workshop/debate

Is obesity an eating disorder

Sponsors LighterLife and MEND

Number of members that have attended: 245

We are pleased to annouce that Prof Paul Gately is the new Regional Chair